Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope

Jadranka Skorin-Kapov

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781501306983
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope offers the first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of the film director, screenwriter, and producer Darren Aronofsky. Including Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), and Noah (2014), Aronofsky's filmography is discussed with respect to his style and the themes of his films, making astute connections with the work of other directors, other movies and works of art, and connecting his films with other disciplines such as math, philosophy, psychology, and art history. Jadranka Skorin-Kapov deploys her background in philosophy and math to analyze an American filmmaker with an individual voice, working on both independent productions and big-budget Hollywood films. Aronofsky is revealed to be a philosopher's director, considering the themes of life and death, addiction and obsession, sacrifice, and the fragility of hope. Skorin-Kapov discusses his ability to visually present challenging intersections between art and philosophy. Concluding with a transcript of a conversation between the author and Aronofsky himself, Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope is a much-needed study on this American auteur.

Index

2001: A Space Odyssey, here, here, here, here, here, here

9 ½ Weeks, here, here, here

A Beautiful Mind, here

A Clockwork Orange, here, here, here

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, here, here; see also Joyce, James

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, here, here, here

Abraham, here, here, here; see also Kierkegaard, Søren

Adorno, Theodor, W., here, here, here

aesthetic experience, here, here, here, here, here

Aguirre, the Wrath of God, here; see also Herzog, Werner

Alberti, Maryse, here

Alister, Ian, here

All That Jazz, here

Altman, Rick, here

American Dream, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

animal kingdom, here, here, here

Ant Colony Optimization, here, here

ants, here, here, here; see also Ant Colony Optimization

archetype, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; see also Jung, Carl

Arendt, Hannah, here

natality, here

Aristotle, here, here

Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, here

Aronofsky’s eyes, here

Aronofsky’s style, here, here, here, here

close-ups, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

extreme close-ups, here, here, here, here, here, here

correspondences among visual depictions, here, here, here, here; see also Vertov, Dziga

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